CloudStrategies Newsletter: Volume 2 Issue 1 - Feb. 2011

CloudBreakingNews: CloudStrategies Enters RackSpace Partner Network as Platinum Member

CloudBreakingNews

January 30, 2010-Morris Plains, NJ - CloudStrategies, LLC., the leading provider of cloud-technology-based business solutions,announced that they will be entering into the Rackspace Partner Network as a Platinum member.

Rackspace Hosting"CloudStrategies delivers top-quality guidance to customers, helping them develop the most effective strategy for increasing IT service levels and reducing costs," said Christopher Rajiah, director of channel sales, Rackspace. "We look for synergistic relationships with industry leaders like CloudStrategies that enable us to add greater value to our customer base and sustain our ongoing commitment to Fanatical Support."

Fanatical Support® has made Rackspace the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, delivering enterprise-level hosting services to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world. Founded in1998, Rackspace has since grown to serve more than 100,000 cloud computing customers. Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies for each customer's specific need and delivers it as a service via the company's commitment to Fanatical Support. Core products include Rackspace Managed Hosting, The Rackspace Cloud™ and Rackspace Email & Apps.

"Rackspace Hosting is an ideal partner for us," explained CloudStrategies CEO Pete Zarras.  "Their broad scope of services add great flexibility to our ability to recommend the best solution for our customers.  From public to private cloud strategies, Rackspace provides excellent alternatives delivering top-quality in every service.  That's important to CloudStrategies."  Zarras also added, "We're especially proud to have been invited into the Rackspace Partner Network as a  Platinum member.  This is wonderful recognition of our leadership role in helping customers select the best possible solutions, and our ability to coordinate provisioning and delivery of those services to everyone's satisfaction."

No More ServersRackspace Hosting is the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. In 2010, Rackspace was recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and listed on the InformationWeek 500 as one of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. The company was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the "2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting."

About CloudStrategies
CloudStrategies, LLC. helps business decision-makers to make the most effective decisions to dramatically increase IT service levels while reducing short-term capital investments and long term operating expenses by leveraging the best cloud-computing strategies available.  The CloudStrategies Team combines years of experience integrating on-premises solutions with high-level relationships with the leading providers in the growing cloud-computing industry.  CloudStrategies is a top-tier Microsoft Gold Certified Cloud Champion and a Platinum Partner in the Rackspace Partner Network.  For more information visit us at www.cloudstrategies.net.